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Jade Bangles Jade Bangle Jade Bracelets.

Jade jewelry in form of pendants probably are second in the row. Just by looking at a simple jade bangle it is possible to see all the volatility and difficulty of the jade market in general.

It is possible to buy pretty jade bangles at a shop in Yangon Myanmar Bogyoke market, one of the main sources of jade jewelry for about $ 10,-.

This is a genuine piece of jadeite nicely cut, not carved but polished, real jades, not treated. What it doesn't have is translucency and a real exquisite texture and color and this is where the exponential price rise starts.

If the jade bangle

has good translucency and maybe the right green jade color it might be immediately exponentially more expensive and we don't talk about treated jade bangles which is very common in China, they add all kind of chemicals under very high pressure to get the required look and texture.

The best properties to consider are with emerald green color jade bangles, also known as imperial jade, a good clarity, nice texture, no cracks and a good amount of translucency, actually the better the transparency is the higher the higher the price.

This jade bangles comes various colors, such as white, lavender, brown, pink, purple but the most sold items are always green and often green and white as it is seen below.

If you found a nice dress,

great shoes, what’s missing? Yes, great jade bangle or jade bracelet! This could be just the right piece of jewelry to make your outfit look gorgeous, bracelets have just the right size to being noticed, they are not small such as earrings or simple rings and having the right color and shine it complements perfect any dress. It won’t look overdone as with a diamond necklace or

bracelet and is reasonably priced, great jadeite bangle and bracelets are available from around $ 20,- up to over $ 5000,- all natural, no fuss, no tricks, no manipulations (this subjects must be worked through carefully when buying the jewelry)

they are positioned at one of the most visible parts of a women, the wrist. The jadeite bangle will put the spotlight on your wrist it’s a classic eye catcher. Since this pieces of jewelry are available in almost any color its easy to make them match.

This bracelets and bangles are usually simple and straight forward in design. Some manufacturers offer them with some, usually, white gold adds on to enhance the light reflection.

Some bangles are beautifully carved with various motifs to give a special touch. Gorgeous piece that which look to pull themselves, it's rather casual, but it looks great and maybe as the Chinese tell it brings luck whenever it’s on your body.

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Checking Jade
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Jade carving
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Jade boulder, jade bangles, jade bracelets, jade bangle.

Cheap jade bangles are also the market along the main street at Mae Sot Thailand where everyday the people show the materials they smuggled into Thailand and there are quite some pretty pieces laying around.

Checking jade bracelets

could be done with a simple torchlight and a high level of experience there is no way to play games with the guy, he really tells exactly what's on. The most popular jewelry is a green bangle, lavender jade jewelry and white jewelry.

The bangles come as carved or simply polished, as pendants, amulets, rings, earrings etc. The pendants are often carved Buddhas. The real good quality is also called Imperial jade.

Chinese are masters in Jade carving.

They are expert to carve the green stone and mostly work in shifts, 24 hours and still it takes sometimes more than a years to finish one piece of a sophisticated jadeite item. For centuries methods to create jade bangles have been unchanged. Bracelets and other items are not carved, the method is rather drilling and grinding.

Boulders are somewhere extracted (usually quality jadeite comes from northern Myanmar this days) from maybe 10 or 20m depth in the earth and are cut into pieces. From this point the methods to create the final object depends on the form of the object.

Jade Bangles and bracelets

come in a variety of forms, finishing, textures, colors and translucency the better the translucency and color the higher the price. If its a real exquisite bangle and everything fits it can fetch a higher price as a pure gold bangle of similar size.

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Another reason why a jade bangle

could be very high priced is the fact that Chinese people interpret certain supernatural power into the stone in this case the raw material, finally it's not supernatural, defined as a "living stone" but superstition just brewed together.

All this shows that there is a strange aura around jadeite even until present days and this is one of the reasons why people buy jade bracelets. Quality of most items is excellent, having a honey-like transparency or translucency, watery luster and smooth finish.

A jade bangle

is the most widely used piece of jewelry made from the green stone, with an aura of mystic for health and luck. Prices of jade bangles and jade bracelets  range is extremely wide from a simple bangle for ten dollars to a real special one, means great texture, color and translucency for more than 3000,- the values are sometimes strange, since there are no standard parameter. This is definitely one of the most popular body decoration item in Asia.

A jade bangle looks good, comes in many colors, is exceptional hard and has a mythical aura built up over several thousand years. The variety of jadeite colors makes it sure to find just the right for you fitting any fashion style and color. There are two different kind of materials a jade bangle is made from, jadeite and the other is nephrite. Jadeite is the better "stuff" with better colors, textures and when it has a high value of translucency real expensive. Nephrite is less hard and colors and textures are not as good there is also no lavender color.

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White and green jade bangles at Bogyoke Market Yangon
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Jadeite

is mined in Myanmar or Burma, nephrite is mainly mined in China and elsewhere. When buying a excellent piece of jade jewelry this days it is almost always jadeite from Myanmar, also when they call it Chinese jade, it's from Myanmar or Burma, either smuggled or exported normally to China where most of the manufacturing places are to bring the raw jades into jewelry.

Mythical properties of jades are cloudy and never proved, its more superstition telling if you wear jewelry made from the green stone its good for your health, your mind and bring good luck, increase longevity, which are good ideas anyway and also good arguments of the jewelry sales person in the shop. Currently (2012) are plenty of rumors that the supply of raw material is declining because of huge demand of jewelry items from Chinese people, which is partly true. As a matter of fact there are enough mountains of jade and underground deposits in northern

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Jade Pendant

Myanmar and elsewhere such as New Zealand and US to satisfy the market for decades and from time to time new deposits are found.

Beside of a bangle

there are jade pendants, earrings, chains, necklaces, rings and more, a wide spectrum of great body decoration. Jade Bangles are some of the most demanded items made from the green stone. They come in all price ranges starting already from around US 10,- at the jadeite market at Bogyoke Aung San Market in Yangon Myanmar up to real exquisite ones for thousands of dollars. This wide price spectrum is really amazing but it reflects the different qualities and properties of jadeite, it is necessary to point out that even the cheap one is

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Jade Pendants


 

genuine not treated with any enhancement technique. Actually it won’t make make sense to invest time and materials to make jade bangles with such as low price. That is also not nephrite which is generally much lower than jadeite prices.

When buying a jade bangle

or jade bracelet it is very important to check that it fits well and has no hard edges which can scratch or even rub the skin uncomfortably. When buying at a shop there is no problem since you can try it first, when buying jade bangles or jade bracelets on the internet make a small model by just cutting the form with the right dimension out of paper or better cardboard and see if that measurements fit you.

Important is always the inside diameter of a jade bangle and be careful when measuring because the wrist at the left has usually slightly different measurements 

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Jade Bracelets

than at the right side. After finding the dimensions have a look for the quality, color, translucency, texture and very important, check for cracks in jade bangles. If buying from the shop and the item is over lets they around $ 500,- take a strong torchlight and a at least 10 times magnifying glass with you to inspect the item optically, when buying over around thousand dollar take a consultant with who is experienced since there are too many tricks and cheating which you as a simple buy simply won’t notice, it’s too easy to lose quite a lot of money when you don’t have experience with the subject.

That’s one the reasons which makes it difficult to buy such things over a internet shop because it’s absolute impossible to figure that out from a photo on the screen. On top of it those pictures are usually enhanced with a picture manipulation program where it is possible to change all parameter for jade bracelets from clarity to transparence and color.

This days jade shop

sales people will tell the price will rise over time which is not true, why should be a rise? There is a lot of natural jade out there, every month they discover some new deposits in Kachin state in the north of Burma or Myanmar, this is for jadeite, for a lesser

quality jade bangle which is nephrite the proven deposits in China, New Zealand, USA, Canada etc. are rather large and they find a lot of new stone and boulders after the Chinese started a research and exploration program at some places at the fringes of the Taklimakan desert, they already found a lot new deposits in recent times. The thing should really be the quality to be focused on and forget all other things people tell to push up prices for jade bangles.

Jade jewellery is probably best expressed by some great jade bangles, earrings and jade Buddha pendants. Of course there are others but that gets expensive then. If there is enough cash for some real great jade artwork get a jade Buddha, that's a real eye catcher in every house, not only optically but also with some mental background, read more.
 

 
 

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